estate agents
Brexit vote and the resulting downturn in the housing market
Since the Brexit vote and the resulting downturn in the housing market, much of my consultancy work has involved helping clients to reduce costs, says Adam Walker, but we have to avoid chopping the critical elements of the business! When things are going well, it is all too easy to let costs increase and a…
Read MoreAvoiding the wrong kind of cost cutting
Since the Brexit vote and the resulting downturn in the housing market, much of my consultancy work has involved helping clients to reduce costs, says Adam Walker, but we have to avoid chopping the critical elements of the business! When things are going well, it is all too easy to let costs increase and a…
Read MoreHow to prevent staff stealing money from your business
Employee fraud is a significant problem faced by organisations of all types and sizes, says, Adam Walker and there is no reason to think that estate agents and letting agents are exempt from it. Whilst we would all like to believe that our employees are loyal and honest, there are still many reasons why your…
Read MoreMoney matters
“Money…” How would you complete the sentence? Money makes the world go around? Money is the root of all evil? What is your instinctive answer? And why is this important? says Adam Walker. Well, the attitude that we have towards money plays a very important role in determining how much of it we earn, how…
Read MoreThe true worth of your property
“Every agent has homes on their books that are overpriced, says Adam Walker. All the evidence says the house is worth £450,000 but the vendor wants £500,000. You can tell them again and again it’s too much, but they will just not listen to reason.” Well, if it’s any consolation, the same is true for…
Read MoreBrexit chaos is paralysing entire housing market including sales of agents themselves
Here are my thoughts on the Brexit chaos. Are they yours? During my 40 years in the property industry, I have never seen an event that has paralysed the market so totally as Brexit. I have clients in almost every market sector and almost every one of them is complaining about the devastating impact that…
Read MoreThe demise of the online estate agency sector
‘Happy New Year… As I sit down to write this article, the first one of 2019, the estate agency news magazines, websites, portals and indeed, Twitter, are full of stories about the demise of the online estate agency sector, says Adam Walker, I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ but…” Emoov has just collapsed…
Read MoreFight back or perish
Imagine that you owned a Michelin-starred restaurant that served delicious food at £100 per head. How would you react if a new McDonald’s restaurant opened right opposite you? Would you start serving burgers and chips at £2.99 per portion or would you work still harder to serve even more delicious food at a premium price?…
Read MoreWho Will Defend Us?
I have written about this subject before but it’s becoming ever more important so I make no apologies for writing about it again. Hardly a week goes by now without a negative article in the press about estate agents and landlords. Last weekend, a leading firm had their office besieged by a large crowd of…
Read MoreWill the online agents destroy us?
As I sit down to write this article, Purple Bricks has just been valued at £250 million! Personally, I would not dream of investing in the business at this level but an awful lot of estate agents are growing increasingly worried that the online agents will destroy them. So will they? Personally, I think that…
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